Susan Hobbs

Photos:

LOVE SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION #3, 2009, graphite on paper
82 x 56.5 cm each

LOVE SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION #4, 2009, graphite on paper
82 x 56.5 cm each

OBLIVION #2, 2009, graphite on paper, plexiglass, 121 x 83 cm each

Proposal for Ruins (#12), 2007, graphite on paper, 61 x 91.5 cm

Proposal for Ruins (#4), 2007, graphite on paper, 61 x 91.5 cm

Proposal for Ruins (#9), 2007, graphite on paper, 61 x 91.5 cm

Krista Buecking

Buecking’s previous series of drawings, Proposal for Ruins, addressed states of disintegration and renewal in her fictional depictions of modernist buildings in ruin. LOVE SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION also focuses on the architectures of civilization but specifically on the auras of their physical and figurative components. Meticulously rendered in graphite, Buecking suspends crumbling pieces of bricks in blank voids. Paired with these drawings are “fragments” of a different sort: pithy statements that reiterate a tenuous idea of eternity.

1982
Born in Brampton, Ontario
2007
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
The Weight of the Ocean, Mercer Union, Toronto
2009
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto

about the exhibition (pdf)

2007
A3, Satchel Gallery Toronto
2006
Chinook, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
düsseldorf contemporary redux, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2007
As it Seems, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
MOST DIFFICULT, Art Metropole/ The Annex, Toronto/Guelph
(entropy fragments) poster, Derek Sullivan
COLD OPEN, Optica, Montreal
Grab-Bag, Artery Gallery, Waterloo
ROPE LADDER, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph
The Winners Circle, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph
2006
Voids i in Joy, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph
The Prototype Artist, Artery Gallery, Waterloo
2005
As long as it doesn’t pretend to be something that it’s not/As long as it does pretend to be something that it’s not, Zavitz Galley, Guelph

Krista Buecking at Susan Hobbs

by E.C. Woodley (review)

Art in America, April 2010

read (pdf)

Krista Buecking at Susan Hobbs

by Rosemary Heather (review)

Canadian Art, Summer 2010

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Krista Buecking at Susan Hobbs

by Dan Adler (review)

Artforum, April 2010

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Five Notes

by Ann Dean (article)

Magenta Magazine, 3 February 2010

Krista Buecking at Susan Hobbs

by Gary Michael Dault (review)

The Globe and Mail, 9 January 2010

LOVE SONG FOR A FUTURE GENERATION

by Krista Buecking (artist project)

C Magazine, Winter 2008

Dusseldorf Do

by Leah Sandals (review)

Now Magazine, 17-24 July 2008

VERTICALITY / HORIZONTALITY

by Krista Buecking (artist project)

Kazine, May 2007

Black Diamond Society sneaks
thought-provoking art on campus

by Duncan Day-Myron (article)

The Ontarion, 12 April 2007

WHERE WE ARE MISPLACED

by Krista Buecking (artist project)

YYZINE, June 2007

EAT WORK SLEEP

by Krista Buecking (artist project)

Kazine, February 2007